Scorsese To Direct Harrison Film
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese is all set to direct a film on Beatle, George Harrison.
It will not be easy.
George Harold Harrison was a complicated soul.
Birth in Wavertree, Liverpool; death in a Hollywood mansion.
It’s a long and winding road.
The Quarrymen, Pete Best, Johnny and the Moondogs, Stuart Sutcliffe, The Silver Beatles. The Beatles. Reeperbahn Hamburg, strippers and Preludin. The Cavern. John, Paul, George and Ringo. Brian Samuel Epstein, the fifth Beatle.Homosexuality. George Martin. Parlophone. Love Me Do, Please, Please Me. Beatlemania and Fab Four. Apple. Buckingham Palace. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Transcendental meditation and Lysergic Acid.Bob Dylan, cannabis in New York. Twickenham Studios and Abby Road. Hare Krishna and Japa Yoga. Up on a mountain in India looking for Nirvana. Ravi Shankar and this bird has flown to a Norwegian wood, as the sitar gently weeps. Abbey Road. John Lennon leaves Beatles. And in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take.
Reincarnation and Hare Krishna, My Sweet Lord and bitter memories of Paul McCartney. Plays with Lennon. Plays with Ringo Starr. A message for Paul. How do you sleep the nights? McCartney livid. The band was on the run.
Wife Pattie runs off with best friend Eric Clapton. All Things Must Pass. The Concert for Bangladesh. Meets Mexican, Olivia Trnidad Airas. Something in the way she moves. Fast cars and hard drugs at Friar Park in Henley-on –Thames. Dhani Harrison, here comes the son. Harrison turns his eye to films.
Hare Krishna. Traveling Wilburys. Stabbed at home. Punctured lung. Hermit at Henley, living with flower power and grass. Watching his garden grow, riding dark horses. Hare Krishna.
I read the news today, oh boy, John Lennon murdered. Now it’s Fab Three. They meet. produce Anthology. New Beatle single. Lead singer, dead John Lennon. Imagine.
Cancer. Hare Krishna. Paul McCartney holds his hand, Harrison dying.
Death. Reincarnation.
Hare, Hare Krishna.
John Lennon: “George himself is no mystery. But the mystery of George inside is immense.”
How do you start to document this without making another Beatle film?
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